While I kind of expected Singapore Airlines to make its moves in the North-East Asia aviation sphere, the choice of airline here is quite surprising...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/....html?cid=FBSG
While a Korean carrier is natural given that the highly restrictive Korea-Singapore ASA limits Singaporean carriers from further increasing frequency and even capacity (amended not too long ago to include A350s and B787s on routes between the two countries), wouldn't full-service carrier Asiana Airlines be a better fit for Singapore Airlines?
Am not sure how this dynamic would impact the SQ-OZ relationship, given that OZ and Air Busan both compete against Jeju Air on domestic Korea and short-haul international flights out of ICN.
But then again, we could see where the huge B738 order for MI could also end up at. Probably with Jeju Air? I doubt MI would need that many B738s and Jeju Air could take some from the order book, seeing as they want to own their planes and not pay long-term leases on them.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/....html?cid=FBSG
While a Korean carrier is natural given that the highly restrictive Korea-Singapore ASA limits Singaporean carriers from further increasing frequency and even capacity (amended not too long ago to include A350s and B787s on routes between the two countries), wouldn't full-service carrier Asiana Airlines be a better fit for Singapore Airlines?
Am not sure how this dynamic would impact the SQ-OZ relationship, given that OZ and Air Busan both compete against Jeju Air on domestic Korea and short-haul international flights out of ICN.
But then again, we could see where the huge B738 order for MI could also end up at. Probably with Jeju Air? I doubt MI would need that many B738s and Jeju Air could take some from the order book, seeing as they want to own their planes and not pay long-term leases on them.
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